Intentional or not, there have been, at most, three passenger jets hit by anti-aircraft missiles in the last thirty years.
Keep in mind that even if this happened once a year, flying would still be far, far safer than driving.
Keep in mind that even if this happened once a year, flying would still be far, far safer than driving.
At most 3 is incorrect.
Not counting MH17, there are at least four civilian passenger aircraft that were definitively shot down by missiles, and more that were suspected to be (or were definitively shot down, but where I can't find definitive information on the "by missiles" part) in the last 30 years:
LN 602 (March 23, 2007): attributed to the Tamil Tigers using Manpad missiles
Siberia Airlines 1812 (October 4, 2001): admitted shot down by Ukrainian military
Two Transair Georgia flights (September 21-22, 1993): shot down by missiles fired by rebels
Iran Air 655 (July 3, 1988): shot down by the USS Vincennes
Air Malawi 7Q-YMB (November 6, 1987): shot down by Mozambique (can't find anything one way or the other about whether this was "by anti-aircraft missiles" rather than, say, guns, so maybe not technically within scope.)
There are far more than a dozen incidents in the past decades.
If 30,000 people a year died in plane crashes the planes would literally have to be falling out of the sky on fire every single day.